Reserve 101 Offers a Chivas Education

Taste four of the higher-end selections from the label for just $20.

Reserve 101 has been one of Houston’s top spots to go for whiskey since its opening in 2008, with a deep selection of whiskeys from around the world. The Downtown bar is also noted for its whiskey tasting series, where a representative from a label comes in to offer samples and tasting notes of various expressions of the brand’s whiskey. The latest of these is coming up soon.

On April 25 at 6:30 p.m., Reserve 101 will host a Chivas Regal tasting guided by brand ambassador Miguel Galan. For $20, you can benefit from the education of the seminar and taste four of the higher-end selections from the Chivas label.

While the flagship Chivas Regal 12-year, a classic go-to for blended Scotch drinkers, won’t be served, the four that will be are premium expressions of the brand:

The 18-year Gold Signature, an award-winning blend Chivas touts as having “85 unique flavor notes in every drop”

Extra, an expression of Chivas Regal blended from whiskeys aged exclusively in sherry casks (the typical Chivas profile uses a blend of sherry and Bourbon casks.)

The 25-year is described as “the world’s first luxury whiskey." It’s a blend built on a formula that was first launched in 1909, with the youngest whiskey in the blend aged at least 25 years.

The Ultis is described as Chivas’ “ultimate whiskey” and “the essence of who we are." Unlike the other Chivas expressions, which blend single-malt with other grain whiskeys to reach the Chivas flavor profile, this is Chivas first blended malt Scotch; the recipe is a blend of five hand-selected single malts from the Speyside region.

As has become common with Reserve 101 tastings, the proceeds will go to an animal-welfare concern, in this case the Rescued Pets Movement.